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IEEE TEC: Special Issue on Analysis and Design of Representationsand Operators



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            IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
                         Special Issue on
         Analysis and Design of Representations and Operators
               http://www.cs.uu.nl/~dirk/adoro/cfp.html
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  SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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Successful and efficient use of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) depends on 
the choice of the problem representation and the variation operators. 
These choices cannot be made independently of each other. The question 
whether a certain representation leads to better performing EAs than an 
alternative representation, can only be answered when the operators 
applied are taken into consideration. The reverse is also true: deciding 
between alternative operators is only meaningful in the context of a 
given representation. Clearly, this choice is problem-dependent, but 
despite the importance of choosing proper representation-operator 
combinations on the performance of EAs, little general applicable theory 
and knowledge is available to help understanding and guiding the 
construction of high-quality representations and operators for solving 
problems successfully and efficiently with EAs.

The aim of the special issue is to provide a clear view of the 
state-of-the-art in the analysis and design of representations and 
operators. We are therefore soliciting papers that discuss the influence 
and importance of a proper choice of representations and operators for 
EA design, ranging from theoretical analysis to relevant and interesting 
real-life applications.

TOPICS:
- Theoretical and empirical properties of representations and/or operators
- Interference between representations and operators
- Predictive performance measures for evaluating representation and 
operator choices
- Practical guidelines to design representation/operator combinations 
for a particular problem
- Redundant versus non-redundant problem representations
- High-locality versus low-locality representations
- Search space bias of representations and operators


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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission deadline:		November 30, 2004
- Notification of acceptance:	February 28, 2005
- Delivery of final version:	July 31, 2005
- Expected publication:		February, 2006


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GUEST EDITORS
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Franz Rothlauf
University of Mannheim, Germany
http://www.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/wifo1/team/rothlauf
rothlaufATuni-mannheim.de

Dirk Thierens
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
http://www.cs.uu.nl/staff/dirk.html
dirk.thierensATcs.uu.nl


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